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Continue reading →: Review: “Blue Moon”, Ethan Hawke is magnificent in Linklater’s loving, sobering ode to Lorenz Hart“Nobody ever loved me that much”, declares Lorenz Hart, played by Ethan Hawke, as the best line in Casablanca, an opinion equally shared in unison by his bartender Eddie. When Lorenz exits the opening night performance of Oklahoma!, the soon-to-be musical phenomenon by his former writing partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Nuremberg” is mostly compelling, but fizzles into an ordinary courtroom dramaHistory has the ability to be manipulated through persuasion, even despite tangible proof providing the contrary. As Hermann Görring (Russell Crowe) speaks in his own defense, his actions were entirely of his dedication to his country and not with the intent of genocide. Of course, this is not true. Filmed…
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Continue reading →: Review: “The Smashing Machine” is a hard-hitting, but frustrating biopicDwayne Johnson is a good actor and always has been. Underestimated by his wrestling background and a large filmography mostly of duds, Johnson’s respect as a performer has had its peaks and valleys, but recently has settled below the favoritism of other wrestlers-turned-actors Dave Bautista and John Cena. Johnson’s gift…
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Continue reading →: Review: “One Battle After Another” is another instant classic from one of our greatest living filmmakersWhile “the revolution will not be televised”, it’s certainly up there on the big screen. Paul Thomas Anderson, who has for his entire career made decade-defining films from Boogie Nights to Magnolia to There Will Be Blood, has perhaps made his most instantly generationally-potent film to date with One Battle…
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Continue reading →: TV Review: “The Morning Show- Season 4” Returns as Frivolous, Bonkers, and Addictive As EverWhile the first 9 episodes were screened in advance, for embargo reasons, story details will be restricted to Episode 1 “My Roman Empire”. When The Morning Show first debuted as the launching series for Apple+ back in 2019, it immediately faced criticism over its questionable handling of the #MeToo era…
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Continue reading →: TV Review: “Slow Horses- Series 5”, Slough House Takes On A Controversial Mayoral Race, Terrorism, and Babysitting RoddyWhile all six episodes were screened in advance, for embargo reasons, story details will be restricted to Episode 1 “Bad Dates”. Another day, another bizarre terrorist attack in London for Slough House to deal with, this time on the heels of a divisive mayoral election between current liberal in-office Zafar…
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Continue reading →: Oscars 2026 Nomination Predictions (SEPTEMBER)Wow, what a few weeks of festival season can do. Post-Venice, Telluride, and the ongoing TIFF, we’ve finally gotten a clearer look at… well, how a lot of these films actually are. What the buzz off the ground is. What is speaking the loudest in terms of audience reception. What…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Eleanor the Great’, June Squibb Rises Above Maudlin ToneWhile the true synopsis of “Eleanor the Great” has been kept vague in its marketing, for review purposes, plot details will be discussed. Few actors working today have gotten to have a late breakthrough finally pay-off the way it has for June Squibb. At 83, and after decades of bite-sized…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Highest 2 Lowest”, Spike Lee & Denzel Washington Adapt a Kurosawa ClassicAkira Kurosawa was arguably the greatest living filmmaker of his time and High and Low (1963), based on the 1959 novel King’s Ransom, is often regarded as one of his best films. Spike Lee, also one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of his generation, had already infamously remade…
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Continue reading →: Final 77th Emmy Awards Winner PredictionsOn September 14th, the Primetime Emmys will unveil their winners of the 2024-2025 television season while the Creative Arts Emmys take place tomorrow September 6th and the next day September 7th. Three big thoughts come to mind immediately when looking over this hefty list of nominations: Severance, The Pitt, and…
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EDITOR, SITE WRITER
Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”**
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
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